Pop-Up Oktoberfest Celebration At The Blind Tiger Brewery
The Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant is holding a Pop-Up Oktoberfest Celebration! Our Oktoberfest will be Friday September 22nd through Sunday October 1st. That's 10 days of German Beer, German Food Specials, German Decorations, German Music, Dirndls, and Lederhosen! All at 37th and Kansas here in the Capital City.
Wrap your lips around one of eight authentic, delicious German Beer Styles on tap - all brewed right here at the award-winning Blind Tiger Brewery.
Oktoberfest - Well Loved by the Capital City
Maibock - A Quadruple Award Winner!
Zwickel Maibock - That Same Delicious Beer Unfiltered
Helles - One of the Lightest of the German Beer Styles
Blind Tiger Bock - Very Traditional - Triple Award Winner!
Smoked Hefeweizen - Unfiltered & Smoked for Rich Flavor - All Kansas Ingredients
Zusammenarbeit German Pilsner - Collaboration with Wichita Brewing Company
Smoke Follows Beauty Smoked Bock - 2022 Gold Medalist!
For Oktoberfest all our beers are served in multiple sizes of traditional German glassware, including the one liter Masskrug Stein used in Munich, plus the German Glass Beer Boots!
Featured German Food Specials, include:
Pork Schnitzel - Pork Chop pounded thin, hand-breaded, served golden brown, with Sapaetzle (German Egg Noodles), Onion Brown Gravy, and one side
Giant German Pretzels - With Brewmaster's German Mustard or Beer Cheese Dip, or, Order Half a Pretzel
German Bratwurst - Two of these authentic German sausages boiled in our Smoke- Follows-Beauty Beer and grilled, served on a bed of Sauerkraut, with one side
German Potato Salad - served hot - recipe from a German Grandmother
Sweet & Sour Red Cabbage - House-made
Black Forest Cake - House-made, moist and rich, Whipped Cream & Cherry layers with Chocolate Shavings
The whole Blind Tiger Brewery is your Biergarten! Come to the Blind Tiger Brewery to celebrate German heritage and have fun. Bavarian atmosphere, servers in Dirndls (traditional German dresses), taste beer and food from the old country.
When we tap the first keg of Blind Tiger Oktoberfest Beer to begin the celebration you will hear the traditional Bavarian cry: "O'zapft Is!" meaning, "It is Tapped!"
Oktoberfest in September?
Oktoberfest is synonymous with beer, pretzels, all things German, and October. But did you know that most of Oktoberfest takes place in September?
It wasn't always that way. The first Oktoberfest was held in the year 1810 to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince (later King) Ludwig of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. The giant party was held just outside the Munich city gates. Running from October 12th to 17th, the jubilant party was full of food, beer, parades, music, and horse racing. The Prince challenged all the breweries in town to make their best beer for the event.
After such a spectacular party the happy couple decided that the same type of festival should be continued annually. The party grew each year with new attractions such as carnival booths, swings, and bowling alleys. Oktoberfest became such a popular festival that Munich city leaders pushed the starting date into September to capitalize on the longer days and warmer weather.
Each year the mayor of Munich kicks off the huge festival by using a big wooden mallet to tap the first giant wooden cask of beer with the great announcement, "O’zapft Is!" meaning, in the Bavarian dialect, "It Is Tapped!" The Minister-President of Bavaria gets the first beer. The next event is a parade of all the leading brewers of Munich.
These days Oktoberfest in Munich begins the third weekend in September and ends the first Tuesday in October. This year the dates in Munich are September 16th through October 3rd.
Oktoberfest in Munich is the largest public fair in the world. The festival halls and tents seat 100,000 people at one time! More that 7 million visitors attend each year - consuming millions of liters of beer!
That large amount of beer consumption may account for the following things being turned in to the lost-and-found: 780 ID cards, 660 purses, 465 bank cards, 420 phones, a leather whip, a live rabbit, and a set of false teeth!
Now Oktoberfest is celebrated all over the world on somewhat differing dates, but always late September and early October. Prost!
